We wake up to a bit of a drizzly day but the toilet cassette waits for no-one ((Oh, I’m out. Honestly just because literally everyone asks about the toilet within about 2 minutes of a conversation does not mean you have to talk about it in every other blog!)) Actually, Brackets this is for a… Continue reading Day Fifteen – Just a bit further down the canal – Wednesday 2nd August
It’s with regret we leave the mooring at Stoke. At the risk of being evicted we head off to hopefully secure a mooring at Holme Lock ((big spoiler here folks – they do!)) Hey Brackets, stop ruining my plan of building up the tension of the story, the… will they, won’t they make it alive?… Continue reading Day Ten – On the move – Friday 28th July
After chatting to the lockie it seems it is a little busy at the locks ahead and Nottingham due to the festival ((they later find out the festival isn’t until next weekend. Honestly canal and river trust should revoke their licence they have no clue what’s happening and you keep mentioning it. I think everyone… Continue reading Day Nine – Still here – Thursday 27th July
11.49Today is moving day for boats and the pontoon all but empties as one by one the boaters move on. It seems 10 am is generally the acceptable time to get out and get on with the day. Chris swings the boat out as well as he can as the river is flowing quickly after… Continue reading Day Six – Gunthorpe to Stoke Baldolph – Monday 24th July
We wake up to the sound of a flock geese flying over and I think, ‘that’s strange’ we don’t normally hear that in the marina. It’s usually the sound of ducks drilling against the side of the boat or as in Newark’s case; the sound of sirens. I honestly never knew there were so many… Continue reading Day Two – Staying put at Hazelford Lock – Thursday 20th July
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